Distinguished Architect
Stitch Fix · Remote, USA
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**Distinguished Architect** **About Stitch Fix, Inc.** Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) is redefining retail by combining human creativity with advanced data science and Generative AI. As we build the future of personalized shopping, we’re committed to building yours too. **About the Role** Reporting to the Chief Product & Technology Officer, the Distinguished Architect will set the technical direction for Stitch Fix’s future platform and guide architectural investments that make products more resilient, scalable, efficient, secure, and adaptable. This is a senior technology leadership role for a builder and systems thinker who can connect business strategy, client experience, data & AI ambitions, and operational realities to a coherent technology evolution. You’ll work across product engineering, data, platform, enterprise systems, security, and operations to establish architectural principles and make high-quality trade-offs—modernizing legacy foundations while preserving stability, reliability, and client trust. **Responsibilities** - Own and continuously evolve Stitch Fix’s enterprise technology architecture (target-state principles, platform capabilities, modernization pathways). - Translate strategic business priorities into architectural choices and investment roadmaps balancing speed to value with long-term scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency. - Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure new client-facing capabilities, internal tools, data products, and AI-enabled experiences are built on durable, reusable, well-governed foundations. - Lead architecture governance: define decision rights, lightweight review practices, reference architectures, and technical standards that accelerate teams. - Identify and prioritize systemic technology risks (legacy constraints, single points of failure, resilience gaps, data/integration complexity, performance bottlenecks, security concerns, avoidable operating cost). - Shape multi-year investment strategy for platform modernization, cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, observability, data architecture, integration patterns, reliability engineering, and technical debt reduction. - Set expectations for reliability, disaster recovery, performance, scalability, observability, and operational readiness—partnering with engineering and security leaders. - Guide data and AI foundation design to support trustworthy, scalable use of data and machine learning across client experiences, merchandising, operations, and internal workflows. - Champion engineering efficiency through simplification, platform reuse, automation, and architecture choices that reduce cognitive load and improve throughput. - Advise CPTO and executive stakeholders on major technical decisions, investment trade-offs, vendor and build-vs-buy choices, and risks/opportunities from emerging technologies. - Build and convene an architecture community across Stitch Fix, developing senior talent and shared ownership for high-quality decisions. - Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs in clear business terms. **What Success Looks Like** - A clear, credible architecture strategy connecting technology investments to business outcomes and client value. - Faster movement for product/engineering teams via reusable platforms, standards, simpler integration patterns, and fewer avoidable dependencies. - A platform that is more reliable, secure, observable, and scalable—reducing operational
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